Simulation of a 6 MV Elekta Precise Linac photon beam using GATE/GEANT4

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 903-918

  Grevillot, L ^a,b   Frisson, T ^a,b   Maneval, D ^b   Zahra, N ^a,b,c   Badel, J N ^a,b   Sarrut, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CENTRE LÉON BÉRARD   (France)

^c Lyon Medicine University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EXTERNAL RADIOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FULL SIMULATIONS; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TRANSVERSE PROFILE; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79551699417     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/4/002     Document Type: Article

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